2025-05-08
Wikipedia's owner challenges categorization rules under UK's Online Safety Act
The Wikimedia Foundation, hosts of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is challenging an aspect of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA). The law aims to protect users from harmful online content by imposing restrictions and fines on large internet platfor [...]
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2025-06-13
Wikipedia cancels plan to test AI summaries after editors skewer the idea
Wikipedia is backing off a plan to test AI article summaries. Earlier this month, the platform announced plans to trial the feature for about 10 percent of mobile web visitors. To say they weren' [...]
2025-02-10
Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google found new child safety group
Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST, or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes "to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure su [...]
2025-03-10
Volunteer photographers are fixing Wikipedia's terrible celebrity headshots
Go to a profile of any celebrity on Wikipedia and it's quite possible that you'll be met with a terrible photo of them. Such images are often old or out of focus, perhaps captured candidly o [...]
2025-04-17
Wikipedia offers AI developers a training dataset to maybe get scraper bots off its back
Wikipedia has been struggling with the impact that AI crawlers — bots that are scraping text and multimedia from the encyclopedia to train generative artificial intelligence models — have been hav [...]
2025-07-26
People in the UK now have to take an age verification selfie to watch porn online
As of Friday, anyone trying to watch porn online in the UK will need to subject themselves to an awkward selfie or get their photo ID ready. The UK government announced it will start checking complian [...]
2025-10-17
Wikimedia says AI bots and summaries are hurting Wikipedia's traffic
Wikimedia is sounding the alarm on the impact AI is having on reliable knowledge and information on the internet. In a blog post, Wikimedia's senior director of product, Marshall Miller, lays out [...]
